Simon Baker

Chief editor, @NatureIndex. Formerly @timeshighered. Any opinions are my own, any witty comments definitely won't be.

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Loving this interactive chart in the latest @NatureIndex supplement, on Neuroscience. Shows which institutions among the top 200 have a real focus on this subject, like @ucl

https://t.co/TlOlsv3Ghw

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More in this insights blog from @BecCrew here:

https://t.co/tisdgPAm7E

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Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders: Big rises for China's academic institutions, which now make up eight of the top ten. @Harvard is still top by some distance, despite a 3% fall in adjusted Share, but @Stanford drops out of the top ten.

https://t.co/4oCdpvfeoo

[Kendall Powell @KendallSciWrite]

So excited about the new Changemakers Q&A series launching today @NatureCareers. Continuing coverage of researchers who fight racism in science and champion inclusion.

Changemakers — Nature’s new series celebrates champions of inclusion in science https://t.co/sCn3yjEfu0

[Kamal Nahas @KLNahas]

Generative AI can craft impressively eloquent text, but is it ready to mass produce lay summaries of research articles?

Though it may be on the right track, there are still some drawbacks to watch out for.

New from me in @NatureIndex

https://t.co/Tn2WvtWXLO

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Enter @Nature’s Working Scientist photo competition to be published in Nature and win £500. 📷📸 https://t.co/8LfyOYW0fz

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New from @NatureIndex and @SilverJacket - how AI is being used to accelerate clinical trials https://t.co/rLFm7qqNhx

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Researchers call for a major rethink of how Alzheimer’s treatments are evaluated https://t.co/oT8rrkwnF8 @elandhuis @NatureIndex

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Preprints become papers less often when the authors are from lower-income countries, data from a study show. @DalmeetS reports for @NatureIndex https://t.co/qGJtNtghIv

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So the likelihood is that China will surpass the US even with health sciences included in the not-too-distant future....

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First official release of yearly @NatureIndex data since I joined is fairly momentous - articles from a set of med journals have been added for the first time...

https://t.co/9ezP3rqHrI

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And China is rising just about everywhere you look... some of the individual changes in Share (key output metric in @NatureIndex) for Chinese unis natural sciences can be found here https://t.co/IaPf79JNBX